It looks like a good cocktail.
The climax is at the end of the first season. The "Einstein" {the only "individual" who knows he is the code} in the virtual world Simulacron escapes with the body of the protagonist’s colleague and tells the protagonist an amazing news: the world he is in It's also virtual.
After the start of the second season, the audience knows that the protagonist’s world is virtual, but the individuals in this world are still engaged in their own affairs. Prostitutes are still wooing business, and newspaper reporters are still trying to investigate the "illegal partnership" between the IKZ state-owned technology company and United Steel Works. The work of these people makes people involuntarily see their lives. From this, I reflect on my own existence, the more macroscopic, unknowable truth of the universe.
Are we the outermost "real"; as long as we think it is real enough, does it matter whether it is real?
{Divergence: A brief history of the future says that the necessity of consciousness cannot be found from the scientific level, it is more like spiritual pollution. Consciousness, maybe the universe is an experiment.... People are a bunch of useless enthusiasm? Humans and computers are similar in nature, not as pure as they are. illusory. }
However, life continues. Upgrade the game by fighting monsters, and use your "free will" as much as possible.
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There are also many lovely details in the film.
In the bottom world, there must be a unit that knows that it is a virtual code. The code name 0001Einstein (Einstein) Eins means one in German. He desperately wants to be a real "person", smuggling from the bottom to the upper world.
The following plot introduction is taken from Wikipedia. The narrative is simple and clear, I can't help but keep it here.
It is the present day. Cybernetics and Future Science's (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung) new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with over 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulation. Professor Vollmer ( Adrian Hoven), who is technical director of the program, is apparently on the verge of an incredible secret discovery. He becomes increasingly agitated and anti-social before dying in a mysterious accident. His successor, Dr. Fred Stiller, has a discussion with Günther Lause , the security adviser of the institute, when the latter suddenly disappears without trace, before passing on Vollmer's secret to Stiller. More mysterious still is the fact that none of the other IKZ employees seem to have any memory of Lause.
Meanwhile, one of the identity units in the simulation attempts suicide. This unit is deleted by Stiller's colleague Walfang, to keep the simulation stable. To investigate the reasons for the suicide, Stiller contacts the contact unit of the simulated world. The unit, called Einstein, is the only identity unit who knows about the simulation, and this is necessary to run the program. In an attempt to become a real person, Einstein switches his mind into Walfang's body while the latter is in contact with the simulated world. Einstein gives Stiller an explanation for the mysteries, vanishing memories, and vanishing persons. He tells him that the real world is nothing else but a simulation of a real world one level above.
This knowledge causes Stiller to slip into insanity. The other "real" people interrogate Stiller, and he is threatened with death, incarceration, and involuntary commitment. Stiller is finally able to convince Hahn, the IKZ psychologist, of his theory. The latter soon dies in an accident that is pinned on Stiller, marking him as the suspected murderer of both Hahn and Vollmer.
Stiller flees and searches for the necessary contact unit who can connect the "real" world with the real world a level above. He survives several assassination attempts and discovers the contact is Eva, projected into the simulation as Vollmer's daughter after his death, with whom he believed he had once had a romance. Eva tells him he was modeled on the real Fred Stiller, a person whom Eva loved, but became mad with power from directing the simulation in the world above. While Stiller is programmed to die in an ambush , Eva switches the minds of the two Stillers and brings the simulated Stiller into the real world.
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